Dusty Chimney
#888899
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#888899
RGB
136, 136, 153
OKLCh
63.2% 0.025 285.7°
CIELAB (D50)
57.1, 2.6, -9.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.4; on black, Lc -39.3. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
3.48:1 — large text only
Black text
6.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#757586 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#888899
protanopia
#888899 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#888899 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#888899 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMiracle at ΔE00 1.67: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MiracleΔE00 1.67 · #898696
- Mecha MetalΔE00 1.855 · #848393
- ClairvoyanceΔE00 1.87 · #838493
- MetroΔE00 2.031 · #828393
- Blue JasmineΔE00 2.057 · #828596
- Modest MauveΔE00 2.123 · #838492
- Formal AffairΔE00 2.2 · #848391
- Purple RagwortΔE00 2.579 · #8c8798
- Yin Hūi SilverΔE00 2.764 · #848999
- Cotton FlannelΔE00 2.803 · #9090a2
- HorseshoeΔE00 2.906 · #8b8893
- Ombre GreyΔE00 2.953 · #848998
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.